The world’s fastest interview — 140 characters max per answer The American author on bad teeth, gun control and mastering British humour

Witter: What’s happening? TC: I’ve just completed a new novel called The Last Runaway. It’s about
an English Quaker who emigrates to the US and helps runaway slaves.

Will British readers identify with it enough to buy it? Or are you aiming
it at the Americans?
I think British readers will like it more — the English heroine complains
about the Americans a lot, the way the British still like to do.

Really? Do you feel part of an oppressed minority in Britain, or are you
just whingey and missing vast portions of American food?
Now that you can get Oreos and cranberry juice here, I’m very happy. And I
have a British passport, so I can grumble with the best of ’em.

What annoys you about living in Britain — please don’t go on about our bad
teeth.
British negativity. So it was great watching Brits act almost American at the